Wisdom, Delusion, Consciousness & the Devine | Dr. Iain McGilchrist | EP 436 -Dr Peterson
(credits: Jordan B Peterson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN09qnHhPKA
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in-person with psychiatrist, researcher, and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist. They discuss right brain/left brain hemispheric specialization, the basis of delusion, “unknowing” as a necessary step toward wisdom, consciousness and the divine ground of being, and the imposition of mediocrity in the modern West.Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009). In November 2021 his two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World was published by Perspectiva Press.This episode was recorded on March 17th, 2024Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3KrWbS8- Sponsors -Hallow: Join Hallow’s Pray 40 Challenge! https://hallow.com/Jordan Beam: Get 40% off for a limited time! http://www.ShopBeam.com/PetersonShopify: Get a $1/ month FREE trial with full access to Shopify's entire suite of features: https://shopify.com/jbp- Links -2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/ For Iain McGilchrist:Website https://channelmcgilchrist.com/ On X https://twitter.com/dr_mcgilchrist?lang=en The Matter With Things (Book) https://tinyurl.com/5d3cfns6The Master and His Emissary (Book) https://tinyurl.com/3p4favfe- Chapters -(0:00) Tour update 2024(0:40) Coming up(0:59) Intro(3:15) Hemispheric specialization(8:21) How the left and right brain hemispheres operate(12:39) Newness, grasping the individuality of the stimulus(14:13) Dr. Peterson’s vision of complex knowledge, conceptualizing reality(21:59) The basis of delusion, how reason leads you astray(24:51) Network function as it relates to radical ideology(29:06) To what degree can we know anything is true?(34:29) Not all philosophy is valid(35:47) Science ends with personal truth(41:10) All is one, one is everything(45:31) Why is there life? The coincidence of opposites(48:14) The Kabbalah, ideas that reiterate across time and multiple religions(51:11) How resentment maps with left brain overreach(56:21) Unknowing as a necessary step toward wisdom(58:07) The symbolism of the disembodied eye(1:03:10) Consciousness and the divine ground of being(1:07:43) The spiral ladder to heaven, togetherness and distinction(1:10:10) Intention as a moral act(1:14:26) The way in which you attend alters what you find(1:18:46) The appearance of God as intuition(1:24:55) How hemisphere damage impacts right/left functionality(1:28:17) The relationship between your brain and the spiritual(1:33:35) Bridging the idea of flow to the spirit of play(1:38:10) Imposed mediocrity and the inability to avert disaster(1:40:56) What Dr. McGilchrist is working on now// LINKS //All links: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpetersonWebsite: https://jordanbpeterson.comTour Locations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/eventsX: https://twitter.com/jordanbpetersonInstagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.petersonFacebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpetersonTelegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPetersonNewsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpete....rson.com/youtubesign COURSES //Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personalitySelf Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.comUnderstand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com// BOOKS //Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-lifeMaps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/ma....ps-of-meaning#Jordan #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus
